Hello, my name is Derek Rankins. I am currently the Digitization Lab Manager at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Every day I handle priceless materials for digitization ranging from the mid 1400's to present day. I have been in photography for over 15 years from maintaining the last existing Kodachrome processor in Kansas, to traveling with a National Geographic photographer, to teaching photography, and now digitization. I have digitized or managed the digitization of a large variety of materials. Below is a list of a few of them.